Turns out it was the sequence.

Ginger smacked me today.

I've been trying to train my cat Ginger to sit and sit-up, as she's the first cat I've had with the brains and aim-to-please personality that would make it possible. So everyday for the past two weeks(give or take) we've been doing this training drill where she sits, sits-up(like a meerkat)then gets a freeze-dried shrimp. Well, today I wanted to see if she knew the words or the sequence.

Well she hesitated at the first 'up', then did her 'sit' just fine, I grabbed a shrimp and squatted down on the floor like usual then asked her to 'sit' but she went 'up' so I told her "no, sit", so she smacked me on the lip! But she did successfully finish the new sequence.

Blasted cat knew that 'sit'+'up'=shrimp. Apparently I'm the one being trained. I just wish she'd train me to stop stepping on her tail. She's a Manx with an inch worth of tail and I've stepped on it twice.